It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

To take the island, cut all sources of retreat. Burn your boats and go all in.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.

The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.